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HOW HEALTHY DO YOU WAN'T YOUR SPINE TO BE?	Print-Friendly | Email Article | Article Search
HOW HEALTHY DO YOU WAN'T YOUR SPINE TO BE? Imagine this.....  A 40 year old guy (let's call him Jake) wakes up one morning and realizes that he is in terrible shape.  Over his lifetime, he has never exercised, played any sports and has pretty much been a butt jockey (or couch sloth) his entire life.  But today something clicked.  Perhaps it was the Rocky movie he saw last night.  Anyway, now he has decided to get into shape for the first time.  He groans as he slowly crawls out of bed, hobbles over to the computer and googles a gym to join.  How exciting for him. A few hours later he walks in to this fancy high tech gym and promptly feels like this is the place for him.  Surely, this place will get him in shape.  He meets with the personal trainer and goes through all the evaluations,  baseline measurements and tests.  After that, the personal trainer looks him in the eye and say's, "glad you came in Jake, we want to help you get in shape, so please tell me, how healthy do you want to be?"  Now you must keep this in context.  Jake knows absolutely nothing about getting in shape or exercise physiology.  Not how much time, effort, money, soreness, persistence, commitment and everything else it takes.  He just knows what he want's.  His answer to the personal trainer is what we all want, but few of us are willing to do. "I want to be as healthy as I can, like the guy in that poster!".  The trainer grins, and say's to Jake, "fantastic, I will clear my calender and plan to see you in here for 4 hours, 2x per day, everyday, for the rest of your life, ready--lets get started.   Oh, and do not forget this diet here, basically everything you like to eat has to go, and everything that you think tastes nasty, that's what you have to eat from now on.   REALITY CHECK!!!  Health is relative to the effort you put into it.  Sadly, I am faced with this type of patient every single day.  Unrealistic expectations.  Spines are not much different than any other part of your body.  The common thread here is many people never think about their spinal health until they brush their teeth and "throw their back out".  So they call and come in here expecting me to "put it back" and miraculously their spine is healthy again.  We don't have perfect spinal function, balance and mobility and health until the moment we "have back pain".  Now suddenly your back is not healthy, but once it stops hurting its healthy again.   Your spines health is not determined by how much pain it is in.  Spinal health and function is determined by how you take care of it over years.  And just like Jake's reality check above, it will not become healthy again easily.  Sure, the pain may come and go, but it's conditioning (function) will continue to decline unless you learn to take care of it.  read this about de-conditioning/ James D. McLelland D.C. Chiropractor Short Pump Virginia. Author: James D. McLelland D.C. Source: www.shortpump.chirocenters.com Copyright: Chiropractic Centers of Short Pump Inc. 2014